
Mad jm Regent: 

I hasten to inform von of an important piece of news 
relating to improvements to be nude in the vicinity of our lot 
purchased for Memorial Continental Hall. The Washington 
papers of this date announce that the Columbian University 
has just purchased the old Van Ness Estate which includes 
the square just south of our lot and facing Seventeenth Street. 
The announcement is made that "no money will be spared 
by the University authorities to gather about its new home 
one of the finest colleges in the United States. Plans have 
been submitted for a large University Building to front on 
Seventeenth Street, which will cost $350,000, and three additional 
buildings to front respectively on Eighteenth Street, C Street, 
and on B Street." As is generally known to the members of 
our Society the Corcoran Gallery is only one block north of our 
building site. The construction of the main University building 
011 the block immediately south of our lot will add greatly 
to the value of our property and makes this locality a specially 
desirable one for our purpose. I trust that the members of 
the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion will be encouraged to make renewed efforts to secure the 
necessary funds for erecting our Memorial Continental Hall 
at an early date. 

Very sincerely 

MARTHA L. STERNBERG 

Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means 

2144. California Avenue N. W. 

Washington, D. C. 
June 20th, 1 90s 



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